Her dread is so great that at the end of her progress she does not even allow his name to pass her lips and uses periphrases to talk of him.

His deliberate translationese, his consciously awkward periphrases, and yes, his fart jokes suggest that all language, or all poetry, might be as artificial and arbitrary as his own: why not redo ‘Where are the snows of yesteryear?’

Homeric glosses, along with scholarly neologisms and obscure periphrases, are prominent in his poetry.